Uploaded January 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Here's a nice 5er that goes against the norm a little bit - thank you cheap USA!
Started off pretty well here with the 18 at cost on turn 3, then bid for the 30 pretty early on. That turned out to handicap me a bit too much in terms of money even though trash was dirt-cheap - should've gone for 28 instead.
Meanwhile other big plants went for pretty big prices, spread pretty evenly among all the players. Wishmaker missed out on the 5+ stuff and had to buy two 4-cap plants that made really good money, and that set up the final turn. The 20 came onto the market and the bidding war for that was eventually won by Wish. We almost bought out coal on them, but not quite...and they were able to end it at 13 capacity with exactly $0 left. If you're reading this, please attack the leader in these larger games when they're close to ending!
Perhaps i should've burned trash more to make that short-term money, but don't think that would've mattered. Again, 5ers are turning out to be more complicated than i had thought before. =)
If you'd like to learn more about Power Grid, please check my blog for strategy articles on each power plant as well as a guide to 2-player games:
maninmotiongoingnowhere.wordpress.com/power-grid-strategy-individual-plant-articles
Here's a nice 5er that goes against the norm a little bit - thank you cheap USA!
Started off pretty well here with the 18 at cost on turn 3, then bid for the 30 pretty early on. That turned out to handicap me a bit too much in terms of money even though trash was dirt-cheap - should've gone for 28 instead.
Meanwhile other big plants went for pretty big prices, spread pretty evenly among all the players. Wishmaker missed out on the 5+ stuff and had to buy two 4-cap plants that made really good money, and that set up the final turn. The 20 came onto the market and the bidding war for that was eventually won by Wish. We almost bought out coal on them, but not quite...and they were able to end it at 13 capacity with exactly $0 left. If you're reading this, please attack the leader in these larger games when they're close to ending!
Perhaps i should've burned trash more to make that short-term money, but don't think that would've mattered. Again, 5ers are turning out to be more complicated than i had thought before. =)
If you'd like to learn more about Power Grid, please check my blog for strategy articles on each power plant as well as a guide to 2-player games:
maninmotiongoingnowhere.wordpress.com/power-grid-strategy-individual-plant-articles
